In this guide, you will learn how to sneak attack and perform stealth kills while playing Starfield.
Performing sneak attacks is necessary to rank up your Stealth Skill, but it’s challenging to kill enemies while remaining undetected.
How to Sneak Attack and Stealth Kill Enemies in Starfield
By crouching and using suppressed weapons, characters can perform Stealth Kills.
Unlock the Stealth Skill Tree to check ‘Hidden’ status. This helps you to get behind cover before the ‘Hidden’ bar depletes.
Target enemies who are not close to backup. Ensure you have a suppressed weapon with you.
When you find a target alone, crouch, get behind it, and fire multiple shots until the enemy dies. This maintains the ‘Hidden’ status and counts as a Stealth Kill. Perform 10 Stealth Kills to reach skill Rank 2.
Stealth Skill Tree
Here is the complete list of ranks and perks from progressing the skill tree by performing Sneak Attacks / Stealth Kills in Starfield.
Rank 1
- Effect: Adds a Stealth Meter. You are 25% more difficult to detect when sneaking. Suppressed weapons do an additional 5% sneak attack damage.
- Rank Challenge: Spend Skill Points to unlock.
Rank 2
- Effect: Upgrades the Stealth Meter. You are 50% more difficult to detect when sneaking. Suppressed weapons do an additional 10% sneak attack damage.
- Rank Challenge: Perform 10 sneak attacks.
Rank 3
- Effect: You are 75% more difficult to detect when sneaking. Suppressed weapons do an additional 15% sneak attack damage.
- Rank Challenge: Perform 20 sneak attacks.
Rank 4
- Effect: You are 100% more difficult to detect when sneaking. Suppressed weapons do an additional 20% sneak attack damage. Doors you interact with while in stealth no longer alert enemies.
- Rank Challenge: Perform 40 sneak attacks.
Starfield is an action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and initially released worldwide in 2023 for PC and Xbox Series X|S.